Therefore, when He made His promise to the saints, He spoke this way: 'I and the Father will come and make Our home with him'; and again, 'so that, as I and You are One, they too may be one in Us.' And the grace given is one, given from the Father in the Son, as Paul writes in every Epistle: 'Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.' For the light must be with the ray, and the radiance must be contemplated together with its own light. So the Jews, since they deny the Son just as these men do, do not have the Father either; for, having left the 'Fountain of Wisdom,' as Baruch reproaches them, they put away from themselves the Wisdom that springs from it, our Lord Jesus Christ (for 'Christ,' says the Apostle, is 'God's power and God's wisdom'), when they said, 'We have no king but Cæsar.' The Jews, then, have the penalty for their denial; for their city as well as their reasoning came to nothing. And these men too put at risk the fullness of the mystery, I mean Baptism. For if the consecration is given to us into the Name of Father and Son, and they do not confess a true Father, because they deny what is from Him and like His Essence, and also deny the true Son, naming another of their own making, created out of nothing, is not the rite they administer altogether empty and useless, making a show, but in reality no help toward religion? For the Arians do not baptize into Father and Son, but into Creator and creature, into Maker and work. And just as a creature is other than the Son, so the Baptism supposedly given by them is other than the truth, though they pretend to name the Name of the Father and the Son because of the words of Scripture. For it is not the one who simply says 'O Lord' who gives Baptism, but the one who has the right faith along with the Name. For this reason our Savior too did not simply command to baptize, but first says, 'Teach,' then this: 'Baptize into the Name of Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit,' so that the right faith might follow on learning, and the consecration of Baptism might come together with faith.
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